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...affiliate currently No. 4 in the ratings. A recent early-evening newscast, for instance, featured a story about the tearful homecoming of 43 local students who were on an Amtrak train that derailed in North Carolina. Yet there were no shots of the deadly accident. Says Allen Shaklan, the station's general manager: "Rubbernecking coverage -- the stuff that causes people to stop and turn in disgust -- we won't do when youngsters may be watching...
...Thron and pilot Lew Nash, a volunteer for the environmental flying service Lighthawk, point out fragments of what was an enormous woodland. There is one intact 3,000-acre forest called Headwaters -- the largest uncut stand anywhere still in private hands -- and smaller clusters surviving around Owl Creek, Allen Creek and Shaw Creek. All are listed for cutting. "They want to turn all that into lawn furniture and hot-tub decking," Thron yells over the Cessna's intercom. A much larger area of nearly 40,000 acres is scarred and scraped by bulldozers, its salmon-spawning streams choked with silt...
...people with whom I've come into contact this semester, though, from the guys working the graveyard shift at Store 24, to the student who complained about the lack of backgammon coverage (you know who are), one man has touched me more than any: David Allen Boucher, the dee-jay on 106.7's "Bedtime Magic" radio program...
Greenspan's approach has its zealous supporters. Allen Sinai, chief economist for Lehman Brothers, applauds the "totally unprecedented" new strategy of pre-emption. "The old way never worked," he says. "It was always too little and too late." Nevertheless, last week's economic news confirmed that the expansion is in scant danger of overheating. Consumer prices rose just 0.1% in April as falling food and fuel expenses offset a jump in medical costs. At the same time, wholesale prices slipped 0.1% overall. "Here we are three years into the recovery and inflation is still declining," says Ross DeVol, an economist...
...WOODY ALLEN...